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Tourmaline

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Tourmaline

Alexandre Stuer
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Mixed Specimens
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 7.5 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

A perky box bearing a sticked set of 4 black tourmalines coming with an old label from the French mineralogist Alexandre Stuer, that held a mineralogy counter in Paris back in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. According to the Mineralogical Record's article, the Mathurins address is the oldest store he owned.

The displayed size stands for the perky box base.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tourmaline

Formula: 
A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7

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